KPK Has No Plans to Question Edhie Yudhoyono
The Corruption Eradication Commission has no reason to question Edhie "Ibas" Baskoro Yudhoyono, the youngest son of Indonesia's president, over the graft-tainted Hambalang sports center construction project, Indonesia's antigraft body said on Tuesday.
"In the case of Ibas, there is no reason to summon him," Bambang Widjojanto, the deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), said. "Later, investigators may decide whether or not to [investigate the allegations]."
The KPK has garnered criticism over its seeming reluctance to summon Ibas, the incumbent secretary general of the Democratic Party, despite allegations that he received money from the Permai Group, a company owned by graft convict Muhammad Nazaruddin that was an umbrella for a host of shell firms.
A former employee of the firm, Yulianis, said the company took $200,000 from the Hambalang sports center budget to give to Ibas in relation to the Democratic Party's congress in Bandung in May, 2010, according to a March 2013 report by the Indonesian investigative magazine Tempo.
Fahri Hamzah, the deputy secretary general of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), said that the KPK had been discriminatory in its summons: he argued that the commission called in the secretary general of the PKS, Muhammad Taufik Ridho, in relation to the Indoguna beef-import scandal, but not Ibas.
"Why has the secretary general of the Democratic Party, who has been accused of receiving money, never been summoned, but our secretary general has been twice summoned regardless of his innocence?" Fahri said recently, as quoted by the Indonesian news portal Inilah.com.
Adnan Buyung Nasution, the lawyer for former Democratic Party chairman and graft convict Anas Urbaningrum, said on Friday that he wanted the KPK to question Ibas.
"[Ibas] should be questioned as there is information that he also received money," Adnan said, as quoted by the Indonesian news portal Vivanews.com. "Even though he's the son of the president, if he is involved, the KPK should dare to summon him."
KPK spokesman Johan Budi recently said that Ibas could be questioned by the commission if Anas and his loyalists, who have long been pushing the KPK to question Ibas, could provide evidence to back up their statements.
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